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Robert Downey Jr. storms out of interview

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In this interview, Robert Downey Jr. expresses frustration over personal questions about his past and abruptly ends the conversation with the interviewer.

Robert Downey Jr. interviewChannel 4 interviewAvengers movie promotioncelebrity interviewspolitics and drug useactor personal historyinterview frustrationcelebrity media interactions

Chapters

  1. 0:00Introduction to the interview
    01
  2. 0:20Discussion on promotional interviews
    02
  3. 0:40Questions about personal history
    03
  4. 1:00Irritation over past topics
    04
  5. 1:20Ending the interview abruptly
    05

Transcript

0:00

doing promotional interviews is standard procedure for A-list actors but Robert Downey Jr had enough during a sitdown with Channel 4 in the UK for the new Avengers movie the actor became irritated by questions about politics and his history of drug use just take a

0:14

and his history of drug use just take a look that's the nice thing is you can have opinions and they change and flow yeah well that's that's life and that's growing old I suppose isn't it yeah you say'll be promoting an interview Ian promoting the movie obviously you're doing a promotional round of interviews and

0:29

promotional round of interviews and that's why we're talking about the movie but we also would like to talk a little bit about you and I don't know how comfortable you are talking about yourself at the moment you have as much time as anyone else will yeah well okay well then let me just ask you a few more questions and you can answer them if you want to and not if

0:45

answer them if you want to and not if you don't want to any well I think we've got two three more minutes on our agreement your foot's starting to jump a little bit you better get to your next question you

1:01

you the reason I'm asking about the past is that you've talked in other interviews again about your relationship with your father and the role of all of that in the

1:17

dark periods you entered and taking drugs and drinking and all of that and I just wondered whether you think you're free of all of that or whether that's still something I really don't what are we doing well I'm just asking questions that's

1:35

all bye you are you I'm sorry it's okay yeah you thank you do you see okay it's just getting a little diur your no look I

1:49

don't want to do that thank you

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